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  1. Re:The trick is projection on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Impossible to visualize? Yep. Not at all. You merely have to project one of the dimensions down so that you're only considering a 10-dimensional space. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 9-dimensional space. Easy. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 8-dimensional space. Easy. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 7-dimensional space. Easy. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 6-dimensional space. Easy.

    Then just project that down so you're only considering a 5-dimensional space. Easy.

  2. Re:The trick is projection on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Impossible to visualize? Yep. Not at all. You merely have to project one of the dimensions down so that you're only considering a 10-dimensional space. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 9-dimensional space. Easy. Then just project that down so you're only considering a 8-dimensional space. Easy.

    Then just project that down so you're only considering a 7-dimensional space. Easy.

  3. Re:The trick is projection on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Impossible to visualize? Yep.
    Not at all. You merely have to project one of the dimensions down so that you're only considering a 10-dimensional space.
    Then just project that down so you're only considering a 9-dimensional space. Easy.

    Then just project that down so you're only considering a 8-dimensional space. Easy.

  4. Re:The trick is projection on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Impossible to visualize? Yep.
    Not at all. You merely have to project one of the dimensions down so that you're only considering a 10-dimensional space.

    Then just project that down so you're only considering a 9-dimensional space. Easy.

  5. Re:I bet Easy isn't actually easy. on Does Mathematical Tuning Make Games Better? · · Score: 1

    Ah - I see we have a Progress Quest fan here.

  6. Re:grievance committees on Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie · · Score: 1

    ricree needs to look up the definition of "implicit".

    Again, are we supposed to think that physically flexing muscles (implicitly threatening violence) is a way to deal with problem coworkers? Maybe if you are a boxing instructor, but in all other jobs it simply is not a good or constructive idea. It is moronic and childish.

  7. Re:grievance committees on Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie · · Score: 1, Troll

    So you implicitly threatened him with violence? Are we supposed to think this is a good strategy for dealing with cow-orkers?

  8. Re:About time on OneDOJ to Offer National Criminal Database to Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    It's good to know that there is at least one cop who doesn't support this fully. I'm glad to see that Boss Hogg hasn't totally cowed you Roscoe.

  9. Re:questions on What Questions Would You Ask An RIAA 'Expert'? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These just seem like stalling tactics. Eventually the RIAA would comply with the requests and the trial would continue.

  10. Re:Have you _ever_ made a mix tape? on What Questions Would You Ask An RIAA 'Expert'? · · Score: 1

    Being hypocritical is not illegal though, so that fact is of zero use in a courtroom.

  11. Re:Hey, Government! on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1

    ObReply:

    Mine, ROT 26, is twice as secure and I'll charge you only half as much.

  12. Re:Gee, I wonder Who Will Get It ? on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1

    I think you may be MStaken. Halliburton is on the list.

  13. Re:Stereo smell. on Human Sense of Smell Underestimated · · Score: 1
    Prey animals, like deer and cows for example...

    Smithers! Release the cows!

  14. Re:A lot of this is available now on Seven Search Engine Evolutions for '07 · · Score: 1
    The first time that a single query will bring a gallery of
    results equivalent to running multiple queries about the
    meaningful variations of the same topic

    That's the worst haiku I've ever read.

  15. Re:No way! on Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution · · Score: 1
    As I post in all these threads: I'm for gay marriage, pro choice (though anti abortion I don't feel I can make the choices for others), for legal gambling (we don't live in a theocracy), pro legalized drugs and prostitution (what do you think Mary Magdalene was???) etc.

    ...

    People on the fringes don't speak for all of us. I don't try to force my views on others. I interest my friends in learning more about my views by: being nice to them and treating them well, and listening when they have problems and trying to help them out whenever I can.

    I believe that you are on the fringe, not the other way around. The offical position of most Christain churches is to be anti-gay marriage, anti-choice, and anti-gambling. Your reasonable position is not the majority, mainstream, or offical position of many churches.

  16. Re:Even I knew this was wrong as a 10 year old on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1
    But now that your older, you know better. :)

    if a * b = c then a / c = b, and b / c = a

    If a * b = c, then b = c / a, not a / c. And a = c / b, not b / c.

  17. In other news... on Illinois Ban On Explicit Video Games Is Unconstitutional · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sales of "God of War" go through the roof. Film at 11.

  18. Re:Why would anyone buy either? on New Larger TVs Favor LCD Over Plasma · · Score: 1
    Wife-acceptance factor. Try telling your wife that she has to make sure the blackout shades are down if she wants to watch her soaps or Oprah in the middle of the day.

    Also make sure to tell her to hop in that time-machine and hustle up to 2006 where she doesn't have to sit home and watch TV all day.

  19. someone has to say it on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    it's a wrap!

  20. Re:ffs on "Dilbert" Creator Gets Voice Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    No I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to pursue my line of enquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly.

  21. Neat trick on Deprecating the Datacenter? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    With computers becoming so small and easy to distribute over a wireless network...

    How do you distribute computers over a wireless network? It's a series tubes, not a dump truck.

  22. Re:Neither Proved Nor Disproved on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Similar ingenious tests have been devised to easily find the diameter of the earth at sunset on a beach with a yard stick or ruler.

    What's the diameter of the earth at sunrise? Can I use the same stick?

  23. Re:Who was the holdout state AG? on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Off topic, but it's attorneys general not attorney generals. It's a compond noun like sons-in-law or passersby.

  24. Re:Child Porn My Behind on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1
    "Jim Davis voted AGAINST a bill that would have protected CHILDREN from dangerous preditors and pedophiles..."

    Whattya expect from the evil that brought us Garfield?

  25. Re:Ballmer responce: on Top Five Causes of Data Compromise · · Score: 1

    Mushroom! Mushroom!